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https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5338830/trump-federal-cuts-civil-rights-education-investigations" G has fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, ADHD and a mild intellectual disability. Cupp and her husband adopted G as a toddler, and Cupp asked that NPR use only G's first initial because this story describes the symptoms of G's disabilities and her school's response.
Cupp says that after weeks of trying to get G's school to change the way it handled her daughter's behavior, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, which investigates discrimination in schools.
Now, Cupp and other parents say their civil rights complaints aren't being investigated. Last week, Cupp joined a lawsuit that aims to force the federal government to act on complaints like hers. The lawsuit claims the layoffs have undermined OCR's "ability to fulfill its statutory and regulatory mandate to enforce civil rights laws in schools."
"I just can't fathom that anybody would cut something so vital," says Cupp, a devout Christian. She says she voted for President Trump and thought he shared her beliefs. "But I can't understand why they're doing what they're doing, because that is not what God would intend."
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This bastardization of Christianity gets me so frickin pissed my hair hurts!
I know so many "christians" just like this lady and her husband.
Note they "adopted" a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. I guaran-fucking-tee you that they felt they were saving this child from her "heathen" mother. They praise themselves as "saviors". I also guarantee you that they close their eyes and beat their breasts in the "front-row" of whatever fucked up church they attend.
Saint Matthew wrote extensively about these pious dipshits in his gospel.
She fucking voted for Donnie Dipshit, because she felt he shared her "Christian Values"?
...she probably has no clue how right she is!
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yardwork
(69,364 posts)They've never gotten a break.
erronis
(23,882 posts)Christianity, at least as following the teachings of Jesus (from what we know), is not what these nationalist xians want. They want almost exactly the opposite.
sop
(18,624 posts)sprinkleeninow
(22,343 posts)To which He'll respond,
"Depart from Me. I knew you not."
LoisB
(13,028 posts)
Martin Eden
(15,629 posts)Anyone who couldn't see that by November 2024 is stupid or willfully blind.
leftieNanner
(16,159 posts)The man who embraces all seven of the deadly sins, and who has broken all ten commandments - multiple times - is a true and righteous Christian.
Mariana
(15,626 posts)Christianity is as Christianity does. 63% of Protestant voters and 59% of Catholic voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2024, according to the exit polls.
Martin Eden
(15,629 posts)What men have done in God's name throughout history reveals the dark side of human nature, but that does not disprove the existence of a divine entity or what it may have intended for humanity. I say this as an agnostic with no religious belief.
Bottom line, rightwing holy rollers play a large role in the definition of deplorable.
Mariana
(15,626 posts)A majority literally means not all, i.e not a monolithic block.
Bottom line, rightwing holy rollers play a large role in the definition of deplorable.
I agree completely. And the majority of Christian voters in the US are rightwing holy rollers.
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)So they think he’s a godly man.
Martin Eden
(15,629 posts)And those pseudo-Christians think they've bought their ticket to Heaven by advocating for the fetus, which also gives them license for cruelty to the living.
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)But they think he does.
what world did she think he shared her Christian values? He has never displayed Christian values in his life.
maxrandb
(17,428 posts)I have zero doubt that she voted for politicians and School Board members that promised to destroy the Department of Education, and put in place school policies that allow children to be restrained and locked in padded rooms. She just assumed "Civil Rights" were only for "undeserving" minority children...not hers.
She gladly voted for, and I would bet supports, sending "immigrants" to an El Salvador Concentration Camp for LIFE without due process, but don't you dare put her child in a padded Blue Room.
I'll bet my left-nut she cheered at the video of immigrants getting stripped down to their underwear and having their heads shaved.
Diamond_Dog
(40,578 posts)Your line “This bastardization of Christianity gets me so frickin pissed my hair hurts!” describes my feelings exactly!
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)Their family, friends, co-workers, employees, employer, church, etc. are all part of that bubble.
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)We have all seen some of his crimes committed on TV, insurrection, stolen documents, etc.
And we have seen his trials on TV.
He is a criminal, rapist, liar, traitor, cheat and thief.
And he has Christian values?
Sure.
magicarpet
(18,513 posts)...... found Jeezbuzzz.
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)They know Trump is a ruthless criminal, but he hates the same people they hate.
And they love the cruelty.
And they think he will commit as many crimes as he can to help them get rich.
When they know he only helps himself.
Mariana
(15,626 posts)They prefer to be thought of as stupid and gullible, rather than admit the disgusting truth about themselves.
3catwoman3
(29,406 posts)Even them.
Omnipresent
(7,450 posts)They “mask it” by trying to parade around as christians.
Very few people want to be around in public saying, “Yeah, i’m a walking pile of shit for a person!”.
It does nothing for a person’s self esteem. 
Irish_Dem
(81,271 posts)JT45242
(4,043 posts)Joe Biden -- devout Catholic. Regular attendance in mass his whole life.
Barrack Obama -- she'll likely hates him because he's a Muslim. Ignoring the fact that he took was a fairly regular attendee at church. Loyal to his wife and children. (And not a Muslim, but she likely believes this lie)
Jimmy Carter who taught Sunday school in rotation as part of his presidency. Spent his life feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, ...you know the stuff that Jesus said his followers should do.
But she loves the serial adulterer and rapist. Thief. Liar.
She probably loved the oil man liar who spent college coked up.
Beartracks
(14,593 posts)They ignore facts on all sides of a situation and always just believe the Republican must be holy and devout -- especially if he, you know, SAYS he is and all.
There seems to be a NEED for them to believe that Trump is practically the next coming of Jesus.
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sprinkleeninow
(22,343 posts)in the community where they attend services.
That's why politics, especially who to vote for, spoken about from pulpits should be forbidden and ANATHEMA!! But this practice is widespread and accepted.
Many non-Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions of faith disregard this practice and promote political sway which the congregation will accept as gospel truth. Which it ain't....
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)she would still be worshipping the ground he walks on. They only care when it affects them.
crud
(1,257 posts)
InstantGratification
(439 posts)I have a friend that retired from the local school district back in Jan. As head of IT, he sat in on all the budget meetings. Soon after the election, I asked him how eliminating the DoEd would affect district funding. He said a bit more the 90% of their funds came from state and local revenue streams, that they would definitely feel the loss but could absorb it. Special needs being the exception, almost all of special needs funding came from the feds. The state would have to step up and fund it or eliminate the special needs programs.
Most states are in the same boat, some kick in extra above what the feds provide, but pretty much all special needs programs would collapse without federal funding. This lady is going to get a major working over by a clue by four right before the leopard eats her face.
JT45242
(4,043 posts)Professional development...titled funds
Free lunch programs and food subsidies...titled funds
It will be closer to 20-25 percent loss when all is said and done.
InstantGratification
(439 posts)I suspected that but didn't have access to a source that could tell me.
JT45242
(4,043 posts)Textbooks and other pass through funds were a big worry for me.
People tend to know their little niche of the money...
Ruby the Liberal
(26,665 posts)republianmushroom
(22,326 posts)Voting for donnie dipshit, because one feels they share his "Christian Values", shows how dumb one is. He doesn't have "Christian Values" for Chrissake and you need to look deeper at your so called "Christian Values".
dchill
(42,660 posts)This person needs to invest in a mirror.
GopherGal
(2,905 posts)for her one remaining brain cell when she noticed that person in the mirror moved in the opposite direction...
dchill
(42,660 posts)
cab67
(3,750 posts)- I'm constantly struck by how closely the "Christianity" of many evangelicals approximates natural selection.
Gum Logger
(396 posts)
Martin68
(27,749 posts)they've picked up the the MAGA echo chamber. If a liberals said it, it's a lie; if Trump said it, it's the gospel truth.
Marcuse
(9,010 posts)
Americanme
(497 posts)"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the..." Nobody with a lick of common sense thinks he has christian beliefs. But I guess that's good cover for voting for a guy who hates who you hate, without sounding like a racist.
walkingman
(10,865 posts)The last time Democrats won the presidential white vote was in 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson versus Barry Goldwater.
In every presidential election since then, Democrats have lost the white vote.
White Southerners (mostly evangelical) began to leave the Democratic Party after Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, before then nearly 80 percent of white adults who lived in the 11 states of the former Confederacy identified as Democrats.
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)also Medicare into the law of the land. Democrats have been demonized ever since, but the one thing that stuck was abortion. We're pro killing innocent life, therefore evil, Everything from that rotten root.
The right wing found the bludgeon that worked and used it over and over, till that's all there was.
oldmanlynn
(821 posts)That’s how the Maga cult behaves
Mariana
(15,626 posts)I haven't seen anything that indicates that his Christian supporters are turning on him in any great numbers.
3Hotdogs
(15,368 posts)
JoseBalow
(9,489 posts)So much easier to just make up excuses.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)
Be The Light
(154 posts)These people are dumb as rocks!
Javaman
(65,711 posts)She’s now in the find out stage. Sucks, don’t it?
Moron
BaronChocula
(4,555 posts)It's like those farmers who voted for Rapey. In his first term, bankruptcies and suicides among farmers shot up. Yet they continue to support him. Cultural white voting will kill the cultural white.
Warpy
(114,615 posts)who are nasty, grasping bullies who despise their neighbors and feel entitled to do so.
The sooner people realize this, the better. These people should be reviled, not put in charge.
Blue Owl
(59,106 posts)
OverBurn
(1,292 posts)The way he lives his life and the things he says and does. You can just tell how devoted he is in his faith and the teachings of Christ.
Holy fucking shit, do they live under a fucking rock. He's the least likely to have ANY values of ANY kind in the history of the office. Jesus Fucking Christ these MAGA morons are unbelievable. Sorry for the kid, but fuck them.
patphil
(9,068 posts)Amy, the next time you vote, take some time to know what the candidates actually stand for.
Trump has spent his whole adult life demonstrating a total disregard for "Christian values". The only thing he will actively, completely support is himself.
But he's very good at playing suckers like you; people who want so badly to have someone work for them in government that they fail to actually look behind the campaign hype. He plays on people's fears and prejudices, getting you all riled up over issues that either don't actually exist, or are being greatly distorted. His promises are designed to blind you to his actual agenda.
And, that agenda is to be a dictator instead of a leader, so he can achieve his dream of complete power, total control, and, of course, nearly unlimited personal wealth.
First lesson to learn when dealing with Trump is to understand that he doesn't care about anyone other than himself.
NNadir
(38,049 posts)...the religion of Jesus, they chose to adopt a religion about Jesus, but as it developed, the Jesus they worship has no connection to the putative tales of his life. They just stick an orange sticker on their hatred and call it "Christianity."
I may be an atheist now, but I was raised as a Christian as a child - my parents read the bible every day - and I'll be damned if the orange slime mold in the White House doesn't resemble that anti-Christ in their book of revelations. All he needs is a 666 tattoo on his forehead.
BurnDoubt
(1,726 posts)NNadir
(38,049 posts)BurnDoubt
(1,726 posts)in any church, anywhere. He has Never declined a photo op in his entire life, to my knowledge. The notion of him being a christian (lower case "c"
is perhaps the biggest hoax in the history of huckster-isms. Even his "spiritual adviser" looks like Ivanka gone long-in-the-tooth. Actual Christians should slap their pastors for spewing this hypocrisy.
BurnDoubt
(1,726 posts)Be like Him??????
H2O Man
(79,053 posts)The gospel attributed to Jesus's friend Matthew is the most interesting of the four. It is the first in the Good Book, though likely not the first written. No one can say who wrote it, of course, but it appears to be someone familiar with Jewish tradition and influenced by Greek thought. It is sometimes called the "Buddhist gospel," for obvious reasons.
IbogaProject
(5,913 posts)China has been sending their Down Syndrome Kids over here to christian families that can't qualify for normal adoption, either financial or being too old. Not sure if that is the case with this one, but I transpose Christian to Racist as their actual beliefs if they support Prez Trollop.
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)by an addicted family member who is either dead or gone. They took it in because social pressure would not allow them to do otherwise. They use the word adopted, but that doesn’t mean anything.
IbogaProject
(5,913 posts)Here is the very end of the paper.
In this new phenomenon in which children with disabilities from China are being disproportionately exported to the West, we see how both the Chinese government and Western countries attribute the problem to cultural backwardness, all the while perpetuating a cultural politics in which the West maintains its own families by incorporating and rehabilitating Chinese adoptees.
Therefore, any proposed solution to the problem of disabled abandonments in China must take into account not only the Chinese government's lack of welfare provisions and discrimination toward children with disabilities, but also the demand for such children from the West and international structures that facilitate ICAs at the expense of sending countries and in favor of adopting countries. The political and economic inequality rampant and reified through the practice of ICA takes on a eugenic, moral quality with the movement toward the processing of a high number of ICAs of children with disabilities, not just in the case of China but with respect to other countries, as well (Joyce 2013). The fact that there are families in China readily fostering and eager to adopt children with disabilities, and yet they are being disproportionately adopted abroad goes to show that the efforts of ICA are not serving the best interests of Chinese families. And that is a problem that should not merely be the concern of China but of all parties involved.
milestogo
(23,084 posts)Isn't that something all "Christian" men say?
Cha
(319,079 posts)Fucking said so
Demobrat
(10,299 posts)From the pulpit, or the people around them? That’s the only thing I can figure out.
Churches aren't supposed to support or endorse a particular party or candidate and keep their tax exemption. However, that law is never enforced, so right wing preachers feel free to tell their flocks to vote for Trump.
Hassler
(4,924 posts)Shared anything with her? Was she in a coma his first four years? Didn't catch the 34 fraud convictions? The rape judgment? What exactly told this fool she shared anything with him?
maxrandb
(17,428 posts)Just like Jesus told us.
LudwigPastorius
(14,725 posts)Her daughter may have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, but it sounds like she is the one with brain damage.
ecstatic
(35,075 posts)Anyone who voted for him in 2024 is trash. I hope G gets the help needed but Cupp is a piece of shit.
AllyCat
(18,842 posts)Bigoted, hateful Krasnov supporters have hurt.
Cupp can go pound sand.
Bluetus
(2,797 posts)As far as "Christian values", no, not buying that.
Emile
(42,289 posts)
perfessor
(379 posts)“Anyone who follows both Jesus and Trump has never read either of their books.”
maxrandb
(17,428 posts)that, 6,000 years ago, the wealthy and powerful got together for a summit.
"Look, the poor and the unwashed masses are always complaining and demanding stuff. Food, water, shelter, security, honest wages, etc., What if we gave them an invisible sky being that is responsible for EVERYTHING? If we can convince enough of them that their "true" reward comes in their afterlife, they won't pay attention to how much we're screwing them over in this one."